Editor,
Regarding the Jan. 17 editorial, “Conspiracy cockroaches,” the use of the word “cockroach” made me immediately think of the genocide that took place in Rwanda. The minority class, Tutsis, was mass murdered by the regime taking control of the country. The Tutsis were called cockroaches by the military that then used machetes to mow them down. Once we remove the human and replace it with a classifying description, or an animal or insect species, it makes it much easier to attack those we label.
